[rescue] Re: OT Linux

[Fogg, James]

Maybe I should duck and run, but.....

My company has written a new apache embedded parser that will run on any
*nix O/S. Our old Netscape server/parser required Solaris. We are moving
away from Sun/Solaris toward Debian/Intel. We have 3 quick single processor
VALinux boxen doing the work of 4 E420's for way less money. It has been
running well for us, and has given us less trouble than the Sun solution
(note, this is partly a software quality issue too). We take millions of
hits per day and deliver millions of maps/driving directions per day, so I
would call that "production". We have found Linux to be *very* ready for
prime time, if the software is *well* written. In this day and age, we find
that Sun's support is unnecessary. If a Lintel box pukes, yank it and throw
it away. We use load balancers everywhere, so any box (or multiple boxes)
can go crispy and it doesn't matter.

~ -----Original Message-----
~ > Personally, I disagree--but in some cases.  I won't be running
~ > Linux on our E3000 any time soon, nor do I expect to run it
~ > on the Quad Xeon's we've got on loan for testing.  On SPARC 10s
~ > and K6/PII systems, though, I'm using it on production systems
~ > that are critical but low-usage.
~ 
~ 
~ Howzabout the ~4300 servers in our NOC, all running Red Hat 
~ summerother?
~ They're far from low usage (one day I'll forward a traffic 
~ stats report
~ to the list), and quite essential to the business. Mostly P-II and
~ -III's, and about half hardware RAIDs. Running like a champ. 
~ I dunno if
~ I'd want to use it for heavy-duty stuff like Mr. McG hints at 
~ (a P-III's
~ not a Cray anyway), but for web/mail/ftp and the like, it's 
~ Quite Ready
~ for Prime Time.
~ 
~ 
~ ---sambo
~ _______________________________________________
~ rescue maillist  -  rescue at sunhelp.org
~ http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
~